Example of Fedex Intl shipping

So if a package is shipped from NYC to Boston it has to go to Memphic first? That doesn't seem to make sense at any rate. A central hub system makes sense but not for everything unless it has to pass thru that point from start to finish. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis -> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:48 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: RE: Example of Fedex Intl shipping -> -> -> At 02:04 PM 7/27/01 -0500, you wrote: -> >Why did it go from Alaska to Tennesse to California? -> -> Because FedEx sends everything "in" to Memphis and "out" to its -> destination. This was the basis for their entire concept. If you -> read the -> story of how they got started the guy who started them realized the post -> office (and most shippers) spent way too much time trying to optimally -> route packages that could just as easily be routed by setting up one -> routing system from a central point. Thus the routes were all -> fixed (i.e. -> to go to San Jose from Memphis goes blip, blip and blip. etc.) and there -> was no "loss" due to trying to compute n x m ideal routes. -> -> -> -> ->